I also taught classes while there. My first class was on
using the iPad for Genealogy, and while I think the students
learned a lot, I know I certainly did. Folks were coming up to me
throughout the conference sharing their favorite apps and
tricks.

Great app for the Kids: Talking Tom Cat (Android)

GEM: App Jumping

If you have an iPad, you probably find yourself using a couple
of different apps at a time.

When you are in an app, just use four fingers and swipe side to
side to jump from app to app that you currently have open.
For this to work you need to make sure that you have
“Multi-tasking Gestures” activated under the “General” tab in your
Settings.

GEM: Four Finger Swipe

Now as you are doing the Four Finger Swipe you’ll probably
notice that you have some apps open that you no longer need open,
and if they are open they are taking up battery resources. It’s a
good idea to close these down, which is more than just pressing the
HOME button to get out of the app. Use four fingers and swipe from
bottom to top and this will reveal a horizontal line of the apps
you have open. Press and hold one of the apps to start them
all shaking and a minus sign will appear on each. Press the minus
sign on each app you are not currently using to close
them.

What does it mean to be Latino? On May 19, 2012, the season
finale of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis
Gates, Jr., the PBS TV series that explores race and identity
through the genealogy of some of America’s best-known
personalities, seeks to answer that question. Through the family
histories of actors Michelle Rodriguez and Adrian Grenier, and
Linda Chavez, an author, syndicated newspaper columnist and
political analyst for FOX News, viewers will discover that Latino
identity emerged from the tangled histories of European,
Native-American and African peoples.

The three subjects of Sunday’s episode all share Spanish
colonial roots, yet each views their identity very differently: as
Native American, Puerto Rican, Dominican or simply Latino.

At the helm of this series is Henry Louis Gates Jr. He
holds a Ph.D. in English Literature, and is the Alphonse Fletcher
University Professor at Harvard University, as well as the director
of the W.E.B Du Bois Institute for African and African American
Research. He’s best known for PBS productions like African American
Lives, Oprah’s Roots, and African American Lives 2.

This week I was fortunate to grab some time with this very busy
man to talk about the final episode of this newest series, Finding
Your Roots.